Free Republic

President Barack Obama’s chief campaign strategist and senior adviser David Axelrod said that even if President Trump is impeached, it is not likely he will be convicted by the Senate and removed from office. Appearing on CNN Tuesday evening after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry, Axelrod, 64, tossed water on some lawmakers’ hopes that impeachment would successfully remove Trump from the White House.

(CNN) — It was Friday, sunny, and at the end of summer -- all the perfect components for a day at Disneyland. The theme park should have been packed. Instead, a recent visit to Hong Kong's very own "Magic Kingdom" saw empty lines and sparsely populated streets, a far cry from its usual crammed crowds. Lines for the rides, which usually take upward of half an hour's wait, were short and quick -- if there were any lines at all. The rides themselves were nowhere near full capacity -- at the Mad Hatter Tea Cups ride, most of the giant...

The Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, wrote in 1948: “[Satan] will set up a counter church which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church … It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and EMPTIED OF ITS DIVINE CONTENT.” “We are living in the days of the Apocalypse, the last days of our era. The two great forces – the Mystical Body of Christ and the Mystical Body of the anti-Christ – are beginning to draw battle lines for the catastrophic contest.” “The False prophet will have A RELIGION WITHOUT A CROSS....

CBS Claims Radical Climate Teen ‘Stares Down’ Trump, She Was Behind Him By Nicholas Fondacaro | September 23, 2019 9:04 PM EDT Of course, the liberal media heaped praise onto the teenage prop they had driven to hysterics with their fearmongering. Radical climate activist Greta Thunberg threw a temper tantrum at the United Nations on Monday where she claimed the world ruined her childhood, and threatened her opponents, and made faces at President Trump’s back. It was that later action that the CBS Evening News falsely suggested was some sort of faceoff with Trump that had him backing down. During...

Three Democratic senators have written a letter to Ukraine's prosecutor general to "express great concern" over reports that Ukrainian officials had looked to potentially hinder special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Sens. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Patrick Leahy of Vermont wrote in the letter to Yuriy Lutsenko that a recent New York Times report said his office "effectively froze investigations into four open cases in Ukraine in April, thereby eliminating scope for cooperation with the Mueller probe into related issues." ... "As strong advocates for a robust and close relationship with Ukraine, we believe...

I was a pastor when I nearly died by suicide. Churches should look more like psych wards The death by apparent suicide of Pastor Jarrid Wilson stunned many of us, forcing us to try to answer the question: How do we deal with mental health in church? I don’t know Jarrid’s story intimately, but I do know what it’s like to long for death when I feel hopeless. I was a pastor when I nearly died by suicide. If you had to read that sentence a second time, I get it. It’s pretty jarring to read. At 29 years old,...

After Brexit, black women will be less safe when giving birth in Britain Ethnic minority women already have significantly poorer outcomes from pregnancy compared to white women. If Brexit goes ahead, the NHS will see an even bigger drop in standards of care. The government is planning a massive intervention in NHS maternity services, which will dramatically cut staffing levels. The move will a significant effect on the safety of women giving birth – especially ethnic minority women. That intervention is Brexit. The NHS is understaffed already. A survey of Unison members on safe staffing published recently showed that nearly...

The ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ Condition Paints a Bleak Picture for Migrant Children in the UK Many children of migrants continue to face the unjust realities of homelessness, poverty and destitution in the UK as migrant families struggle to find a legislative safety net under current strict immigration rules. Amidst the complexities of reasons why migrant families often fall into destitution is the ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ condition; a prohibitive clause which strips away an individual’s access to welfare benefits, public housing or homelessness assistance if they are ‘subject to immigration control’. Yet, this category does not simply...

Navy Grappling with Effects of USS George H. W. Bush Suicides By: Ben Werner September 24, 2019 7:22 PM Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) sing the Navy Hymn during a memorial service for Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Robert “Bobby” John Bartulewicz III on July 14, 2019. US Navy Photo Navy and local agencies are investigating the circumstances surrounding last week’s suicides of three sailors assigned to USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77). Meanwhile, the service has also increased counseling and support for the ship’s crew, Navy officials told USNI News on Tuesday. The...

September 18, 2019 Clip No. 7492 Houthi Military Spokesman Brigadier Yahya Saree Threatens the "Glass Towers" of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Adds: We Have Dozens of Targets in the UAE Houthi military spokesman Brigadier Yahya Saree said in a September 18, 2019 press conference that aired on the Houthi Al-Masirah TV (Yemen) that the Yemeni armed forces are "determined to carry out widespread and large-scale operations" against the "coalition of aggression and the forces of evil" that are led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. He emphasized that Houthi forces will not hesitate to "deal an immediate and exceptional" response...

September 17, 2019 Clip No. 7493 Iraqi Researcher Hashem Al-Kindi: Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades Refrained from Assassinating Obama Because Iraq's President Was Standing Next to Him Hashem Al-Kindi, an Iraqi researcher who works with the Al-Hadaf Research Center, said in a September 17, 2019 interview on Al-Diyar TV (Iraq) that dozens of operations against U.S. targets in Iraq that the Islamic resistance in Iraq had planned to carry out have been canceled because of the presence of Iraqi civilians and "out of respect for Iraq's sovereignty." He claimed that in 2009, the Hezbollah Brigades had even identified U.S. President Barack Obama...

France: Muslim “girl in search of recognition and love” on trial for botched jihad attack on Notre Dame Cathedral SEP 24, 2019 1:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER How does a jihadi girl get recognition and love? A few fuel-doused gas canisters at a renowned Christian cathedral should do the trick. “Suspected female jihadists on trial for botched terror attack on Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral,” France 24, September 23, 2019 (thanks to Henry): Five women go on trial at a special Paris court on Monday for attempting to blow up a car near Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2016 in what prosecutors say was...

Granted, most of her credits are from 2019. But you should know that this girl comes from a whole family of actors.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace tore into Republicans who support President Trump as the House formally launches an impeachment inquiry into his conduct involving Ukraine, suggesting that they're no longer "good people." During a panel discussion on Tuesday, Wallace invoked a Washington Post opinion piece written by longtime GOP political consultant Mike Murphy that argued that Republican lawmakers should be pressured in joining the impeachment bandwagon. "You know, Mike Murphy has a piece in The Washington Post sort of about good people that he used to know in the Republican Party. I don't share that optimism,' said Wallace, a former George...

We do not know how much carbon dioxide was in Earth's atmosphere prior to the 1930s. Devices to measure carbon dioxide went through a difficult, slow, irregular development. Reliable devices to measure carbon dioxide were available around 1930. "The measurement of carbon dioxide (CO2) was first developed in the early 1900s; however, it was complex and of limited clinical use. " See: Thomas Nowicki; Shawn London, "Carbon Dioxide Detector," National Center for Biotechnology Information. The technology was slowly developed and produced a useable machine only around the year 1930. Guy Stewart Callendar -- who dreamed up the global warming scare...

Click on link

That late-night kebab might be considered a guilty pleasure, but could it one day be seen as a crime against the planet? Will the time come when the only means of procuring a slab of Aberdeen Angus is from a dodgy dealer with a cool box? The barrister Michael Mansfield has suggested that we should have new laws against ecocide – practices that destroy the planet – and that under them, meat could be targeted. “I think when we look at the damage eating meat is doing to the planet, it is not preposterous to think that one day it...

The media had a field day over new hearsay accusations that president Trump was wrong to ask Ukrainian leaders to investigate political corruption related to Joe Biden. Predictably, several several House Democrats have used this news cycle to again demand Trump's impeachment. ... Joe Biden was so proud of the role in the prosecutor's removal from investigating the company paying his son $50,000 per month merely to serve on its board that he actually bragged about it in a speech for the publication Foreign Affairs. In this speech Biden boasts his threat to withhold $1 billion from Ukraine if they...